Judith Butler

Giving an Account of Oneself

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Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to lead an ethical life under vexed social and linguistic conditions? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice -one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780823225040
• ISBN-10: 0823225046
• Artikelnr.: 21221349

Autorenporträt

Judith Butler

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xv
1. An Account of Oneself 3
Scenes of Address 9 Foucaultian Subjects 22
Post-Hegelian Queries 26 ''Who Are You?'' 30
2. Against Ethical Violence 41
Limits of Judgment 44
Psychoanalysis 50
The ''I'' and the ''You'' 65
3. Responsibility 83
Laplanche and Levinas: The Primacy of the Other 84
Adorno on Becoming Human 101
Foucault's Critical Account of Himself 111
Notes 137
Index 147